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Is the decimal expansion of this fraction repeating or terminating?

Is the decimal expansion of this fraction repeating or terminating?-example-1
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Answer:

terminating decimal

Explanation:

Well 9÷5 is 1.8 and since it has an end it is terminal

For example 2÷9 is repeating because the answer is 0.222222222...

But since 9÷5 is just 1.8 it stops and doesn't continue

Terminal examples: 0.2, 2.6, 5.8, 0.465, ect.

Repeating examples: 0.2222222...., 0.23232323232323...., 0.399999999999..., ect.

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